The airline, which currently has about 900 employees working for it in India, is also looking to hire more.
The incident took place when an Air India flight from Jaipur was readying to take off for Delhi on Sunday evening.
Investigators have ended their search for bodies in the Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all 150 people on board, a local official said on Saturday.
The 21 aircraft, comprising nine A-319s, eight A-321s and four A-320s, have already been delivered to the national carrier by European manufacturer Airbus, airline sources said on Tuesday.
Between 2009 and 2028, airlines in India will require 1,032 aircraft, worth about $138 billion, to serve the strong demand for passenger air travel and freight, and to replace ageing fleets with new more fuel-efficient aircraft, according Airbus's Global Market Forecast.
The vessel 'La Place', which is belonging to the French Naval forces and is participating in the search for the plane that crashed last month, has picked up signals coming from deep in the sea and believed to be from one of the black boxes of the plane, which crashed into the Mediterranean, a statement from the committee investigating the crash said.
India's leading private air carrier Kingfisher Airlines has launched two new international flights connecting the UAE to New Delhi and Mumbai.
The launch marks the first time that Kingfisher Airlines is adding destinations from South East Asia to its international route network.
Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines has decided to change its earlier fleet acquisition plan. Though it aims to more than double the size from 66 to 137 aircraft by 2015-16, it does not now plan to induct Airbus 380s.
A man ignited a small explosive device on board an international flight headed to the United States on Friday, in a suspected terrorist attack, informed the White House.A fellow passenger, traveling on the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, spotted the man and alerted the cabin crew. He put out the explosive with a blanket and isolated the terror suspect with the help of the cabin crew.The man carrying the explosive was identified as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23.
The carrier has deployed Airbus 330-200 aircraft on the route.
Timely action by the Mumbai Air Traffic Control avoided a major air disaster over the Indian Ocean at approximately 6 am on Friday, when two aircraft traveling on the same flight level narrowly missed a collision off the Karwar coast in Karnataka. According to sources, over 500 passengers were traveling on board a Qatar Airways Boeing and a Condor Airlines Airbus, when the two aircraft were heading towards each other at a height of 35,000 feet.
has deployed an Airbus A330 aircraft for the service.
If Emirates Airlines is caught in the Dubai debt crisis, it may force the carrier to moderate its expansion, which could hurt aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus, as it has placed orders worth $55 billion with them.
The 517-seater superjumbo will operate flight EK-516 on the Dubai-Delhi route to celebrate the launch of T-3 as a one-time gesture by the airline, an Emirates spokesperson said.
'India as a market is broader than most, with eight or nine major customers and the defence business which is now open.'
According to sources, Vistara was looking at commencing operations on Oct 15 to commemorate J R D Tata's flight from Karachi to Mumbai on the same date in 1932.
GoAir hopes to fly 15 million passengers by 2016-17, serve 30 destinations, up from 21 now, and will largely remain a domestic airline.
Over 160 people onboard an IndiGo flight from Delhi had a narrow escape on Monday when one of the tyres of the aircraft burst while landing at the airport in Srinagar.
The country holds one of the biggest opportunities for Uber as more Indians start using smartphones
The reinsurer expects total insurance cover to be around $500 million.
AirAsia is facing a legal challenge from Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subramanian Swamy, whose petition comes up for hearing at the Delhi HIgh Court on Wednesday.
The runways are expected to be made operational for the larger aircraft before the Commonwealth Games in October.
The remains of all those killed when a Germanwings jetliner slammed into the French Alps have now been identified.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian who allegedly tried to blow up a US plane, had "sneaked" into Nigeria on December 24, a day ahead of the failed terror bid, country's information minister has said. "The man in question had lived outside the country for a while. He sneaked into Nigeria on December 24, 2009 and left the same day," Dora Akunyili, Nigerian information minister said.
Bharti Airtel, the country's largest mobile operator, has already joined the global Seamless Alliance to provide in-flight connectivity.
According to Nasscom, engineering services exports had grown at 13 per cent in 2017 compared to six per cent rise in IT services exports and eight per cent in business process management (BPM). It had also recorded the highest growth in the last three years, reports Debasis Mohapatra.
After discontinuing its service from Mumbai to Helsinki last April, Nordic air-carrier Finnair has decided to restart the flights from October 17 with a brand new Airbus 330.Finnair, which will provide one of the shortest services to Europe will take just eight hours to complete one-way-trip between its destinations and will operate three times a week from Mumbai.
Two civilian planes with 200 passengers on board landed safely in emergency conditions at the airports in Mumbai and Delhi on Tuesday evening after the pilots reported some technical problems in the aircraft.
The aircraft was earlier owned by EIH (Oberoi group).
As a part of its route rationalization and cost-cutting measures, Air India plans to replace its twin-class aircraft with all-economy ones belonging to low-cost subsidiary Air India Express on few Gulf routes from this month end.
On Wednesday, Air India had carried out a test flight landing at the naval base.
The first Indian civil aviation minister to fly for a commercial airline -- Rajiv Gandhi has been the only prime minister to do so -- Rudy started his job with IndiGo from January 4.
Former Civil Aviation Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy has been hired as a co-pilot with Delhi-based private airline IndiGo Airlines on an honorary basis.
India's newest airline-Vistara is bullish on growth prospects.
Mumbai-London is the private carrier's second overseas flight after the one on Bangalore-London route that was launched in September. Kingfisher also plans to launch Mumbai-Hong Kong operations from January 12 and Mumbai-Singapore flight from January 16.
Around four lakh people who attended the event were treated to a spectacular flying display of fighter, civilian aircraft and helicopters.
'Our strategy should be to 'hold the line' in the north on the Sino-Indian land frontier, but maintain and, if possible, enlarge India's current edge in the maritime south.'
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association decided not to resort to any industrial action as planned from May 10.
Air India has derostered nine employees, including two pilots, for taking on board three passengers in excess of the aircraft capacity on its flight from Mumbai to Mangalore two months ago.